This is false, they were working in the updated SAP for a few years before the trial was finished, commenting on the NEW FDA framework for ECA’s and discussing their work and hoped for timing on the updated SAP long prior to their unblinding and data lock. There are some who will never accept that is true, but it would require an improbable conspiracy to think otherwise.
COMPLETE AND UTTER BULLSHIT This is what Linda said about it at the ASM
So, all of these attacks that you're seeing about data ??, we don't have the ability to do it. The data was never in our hands. Similarly, with these documents with the trial master file. No one at Northwest has these. We're involved in the process, we're overseeing, but we're scrupulous about all of it being only in the hands of the independent CRO and consultants.
And we have very strict procedures. No one from Northwest is able to touch anything. You remember that as we went through the clinical trial, all of the data was collected by the independent CRO and was held by an independent database party and was delivered directly to the independent statisticians who crunched the numbers [did the] survival curves, calculated the hazard ratios and all that and gave the results to us. So, all of these attacks that you're seeing about data ??, we don't have the ability to do it. The data was never in our hands. Similarly, with these documents with the trial master file. No one at Northwest has these. We're involved in the process, we're overseeing, but we're scrupulous about all of it being only in the hands of the independent CRO and consultants.